Lecture: Distance from Home and the Effect of Visitation during Imprisonment on Offenders and their Families

 

Invitation: Guest Lecture in the Criminological Seminar

Lars Højsgaard Andersen, PhD, will give a lecture on

Distance from Home and the Effect of Visitation during Imprisonment on Offenders and their Families in the Criminological Seminar (Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences).

Chair and Discussant: Research Director Mikko Aaltonen, Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.

The lecture takes place in 7 November, 2018, 14.15-15.45, at Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40, Room 7 (3rd Floor).

Lars Højsgaard Andersen, PhD in Sociology from University of Copenhagen, is Senior Researcher at the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has researched the concentration of criminal justice contacts within and across generations, the effects of confinement conditions, and the role of family processes in the criminal justice domain. Andersen’s research has appeared in leading journals such as Criminology, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

The lecture is open, no pre-registration required.

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